IWSG January 2025 and Meteoroids, Meteorites and Meteors

 

Hey everyone, welcome back and hope you all had a safe and happy Holiday! And what better way to kick off the New Year than with a post with the Insecure Writers Support Group, brought to you by Alex Cavanaugh and his awesome co-hosts Rebecca Douglass, Beth Camp, Liza @ Middle Passages, and Natalie @ Literary Rambles. Be sure to stop by and give them some love as being a co-host for IWSG is a lot of work. 

Kibbles and Bits (January's celestial events)

Jan 3/4: Quadrantid Meteor Shower

The Quadrantid meteor shower occurs as Earth passes through the debris, ice or dust left behind by asteroid 2003 EH1. Astronomers believe this is likely an extinct comet.

 It’s the first major meteor shower of 2025.

Jan 10: Venus at Greatest Elongation East

Since August 2024 Venus has been shining as the evening star. On January 10, 2025, Venus reaches its farthest distance from the Sun in the evening sky.

Jan 13: Wolf Moon

This is the first Full Moon of 2025 and known as the Wolf Moon named after active wolves during the early parts of the year.

Jan 16: Mars at Opposition

Mars reaches opposition when it lies directly opposite the Sun. It’s visible all night.

Jan 29: New Moon

A New Moon in the sky means no moonlight to hinder your view of stars and planets. It’s a great time to view what planets are visible.

Did You Know the difference between a meteor, meteoroid or a meteorite?

According to NASA Meteoroids These rocks still are in space. Meteoroids range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. 

Meteors When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the fireballs or “shooting stars” are called meteors.

Meteorites When a meteoroid survives a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it’s called a meteorite. Sometimes meteors can even appear brighter than Venus – that’s when we call them “fireballs.”

A Professional Meteorite Hunter

Bonus Points

Most meteoroids are pieces of other,  larger bodies that have been broken or blasted off. Some come from comets, others from asteroids, and some even come from the Moon and other planets. Some meteoroids are rocky, while others are metallic, or combinations of rock and metal.

Fun Facts

Scientists estimate that about 48.5 tons (44,000 kilograms) of meteoritic material falls on Earth each day.

Who Am I My name is Stephen Tremp and I write speculative fiction. My fourth novel, Salem’s Daughters. For a full synopsis and to download a copy of Salem’s Daughters for $0.99 Click Here. And as always, thanks for your support. 

Short Blurb Is a supernatural thriller where a four hundred year old evil is unleashed when souls of the daughters of those killed during the Salem Witch Trials find a new generation of people to murder at a popular modern-day bed and breakfast. 

Question Do you find tis topic interesting or like me fascinating?

Have a healthy and prosperous 2025!!

April 2023 IWSG

 

Hello everyone and as always thanks for stopping by. These are the co-hosts for January 2023’s Insecure Writers Support Group brought to you by AlexJCanavaugh, Nancy Gideon, Jemima Pett and Natalie Aguirre.. Be sure to stop by their sites and give them some love for all their hard work! This during what has to be one of the craziest years in recent memory! 

April 5 Question Do you remember writing your first book? What were your thoughts about a career path on writing? Where are you now and how is it working out for you? If you're at the start of the journey, what are your goals? 

Yes I remember writing my first book. Took about 2 years including editing. The next one I spent about a year then six months each on books three and four. 

I’m not writing now. I’m working on a few digital marketing things that are keeping me busy. I do have a number of short stories outlined and somewhat filled out. I have a great start on a book of unrelated short stories. 

I need to make time to finish one a week. I’ll have my editor go over it once should be all it takes. I’m drawing blanks on the cover art but something will come to me. 

I also need to take time to blog more and visiting my good ol’ blogging buds. Stopping by 10 blogs a day Monday through Friday isn’t that hard. 

Other than that I’m back to brushing up on my Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. The other apps I never use. Amazing how much you can forget if you don’t use it like you used to. 

As always thanks for stopping by! 

Question Do you have anything in the pipeline or ready to release?

2023 IWSG Word for the Year, TikTok and Planetary Arc and Alignment

Hello everyone and as always thanks for stopping by. 

These are the co-hosts for January 2023’s Insecure Writers Support Group brought to you by Alex J. Cavanaugh, Jemima Pett, Debs Carey, Kim Lajevardi, Sarah Foster, Natalie Aguirre and T. Powell Coltrin. 

Be sure to stop by their sites and give them some love for all their hard work! 

January 4 question - Do you have a word of the year? Is there one word that sums up what you need to work on or change in the coming year?  Why? 

Harvest. 

It’s time. It's harvest time. It’s time to reap what I’ve sown. 

Harvest.

This is the year a lot of things are coming to fruition. It’s important people realize when to reap. If you wait too long, then your harvest will either be stolen or rot away in the fields. 

TikTok Well I’ve taken the plunge and opened a couple TikTik accounts. I have one video so far but will binge record and bunch of videos this week probably simple fun silly dumb stuff relating to digital marketing that is lighthearted. 

I’m userStephenTremp and userStephen_Tremp. 

One will be digital marketing stuff and the other the lifestyle of a digital marketer. Not sure which one will be which I’ll decide later this week. I’m still new at this. 

If you’re on TikTok send me an invite and I’ll respond! 

Did You Know Although the planets never were and never will be in perfect alignment, all 8 planets (poor Pluto) lined up Christmas Eve on an elliptical arc. On a good night you can see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter (along with 4 of its’ moons) and Saturn with the naked eye which happened December 28th Reference. 

This takes into consideration this is a generous alignment or arc. Really tight arcs and alignments like 1 degree make these extremely rare events. But that's okay. We'll enjoy the arcs and alignments during our lifetime just the same. 

Enjoy!

Fun Fact The last time all 9 planets align including Pluto were in alignment (just not perfect alignment) was July 4, 2020. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune plus the dwarf planet Pluto all lined up on one side of the Sun at the same time. 

Question What is your 2003 Word for the Year?

Are you on TikTok and if so what do you do? What's your username?

Do you have an interest in fascinating scientific and astronomical stuff you'd like me to post on in 2004?

IWSG April 2022 and CassaDark

Hello everyone and as always thanks for stopping by. These are the co-hosts for April 2022’s Insecure Writers Support Group brought to you by Alex J. Cavanaugh and his team of co-hosts: Jemima Pett, Joylene Nowell Butler, Patricia Josephine , Louise Fundy Blue and Kim Lajevardi. 

Be sure to stop by their sites and give them some love for all their hard work! 

April 6 question - Have any of your books been made into audio books? If so, what is the main challenge in producing an audiobook? 

No. But it’s on my list of things I really want to do very soon. You can buy text to speech software or pay someone from Fiverr to do the same. I would need at least one male and one female who could do multiple characters. I’m not sure if text to speech software can do that, hoping I can find out more by visiting your blogs this week. 

 

And now onto great news as Alex J. Cavannaugh releases the fourth book in is CassaStar series titled Cassadark. 

“Cavanaugh returns to the world of his Cassa Series…for a fourth inventive space opera.” – Publisher’s Weekly 

His world is unraveling… 

Bassan’s father is stepping down from command. His best friend almost dies when Bassan freezes. Now, he’s being sent across the galaxy to speak at an important conference. Despite saving the eleven races years ago, he’s paralyzed by doubt. Could things get any worse? 

Once there, new acquaintance Zendar convinces Bassan to visit his planet for a humanitarian mission. Bassan’s special connection to ancient technology is the key to saving Zendar’s people. One problem though—it’s a prisoner planet. 

On Ugar, he discovers things aren’t so straightforward. As each truth reveals itself, the situation grows more desperate. If he can’t find the right answers, he might die along with Zendar’s people. Can Bassan summon the courage to be a hero again? 

Print – 9781939844842 / EBook – 9781939844859 Science Fiction – Adventure/Space Opera/Space Exploration 

Find CassaDark at iTunes, Amazon, Barnes and Nobel, Kobo, Scribed, and Goodreads And would love it if you could vote for it on Goodreads’ Can’t Wait Sci-Fi Fantasy of 2022 and mark it Want to Read. 

Finally Be sure to stop by Alex's blog for his Blog Book Tour!!!

October 2021 IWSG and Salem's Daughters

 

Hello everyone and as always thanks for stopping by.

 

I'm posting my IWSG October 2021 blog post (better late than never) here at a new site I'm developing. Stop on by and say hello!

CLICK HERE!

 

 

September 2021 IWSG, 2021 Remaining ComicCon Schedule and Kibbles and Bits

Hello everyone and as always thanks for stopping by. Okay I took a much needed hiatus and now I’m back blogging and I couldn’t be happier. 

I’ll be participating in the monthly IWSG as well as revisiting topics regarding science meeting the supernatural. I’ll be posting really cool stuff under these Blasts From the Past: 

• Did You Know 
• Fun Facts 
• Kibbles and Bits 
• Weekend Follies 

I'm developing a brand spanking new Wordpress and Blog and I'd greatly appreciate it if you stopped by and said hello in the Comments that would help me very much.

Please leave your name in the Comments too as the crappy Comments Widget provided is, well ... crappy.

Hope to see you there! 

And if you can recommend a good comment widget I will greatly appreciate it thanks!!!

My New Blog

December 2020 IWSG

Hello everyone and as always thanks for stopping by. These are the co-hosts for Deecember 2020’s Insecure Writers Support Group brought to you by Alex J. Cavanaugh and his team of co-hosts: Pat Garcia, Sylvia Ney, Liesbet @ Roaming About, Catrina Constantine and Catrina Constantine. 

Be sure to stop by their sites and give them some love for all their hard work! 

December 2 question - Are there months or times of the year that you are more productive with your writing than other months, and why? 

                            Example from Google Images

I’d say no not really. I write when I have time or make time and it’s fairly consistent week to week. I’ve not really monitored my writing but I think I’ll do a digital art journal every day for 2021. 

In the past I used this as an opportunity to work on my Photoshop skills, using images and different fonts from different eras. I have fun with journaling. It's really an overall pop culture fest. Wish I hadn’t stopped now. 

Thanks Alex great question! 

Question Do you journal? If so, how do you do it?